Maureen Garbarino is originally from California but has lived in BC since1975. Although she had sketched and painted sporadically over the years, it was not until she retired from her position as a community college English instructor and moved to Salt Spring Island in 1996 that she began to paint and display her works regularly. Though largely self taught, she has taken various drawing and painting courses over the years including studying with Brian Simons and Bill Porteous in Victoria and with Kiff Holland, Ann Forman, and Bettina Lewis in Vancouver. She works primarily with acrylic on canvas but has also recently done some work in oil. Her paintings have been exhibited on Salt Spring Island and Victoria as well as in California and are in private collections on both east and west coasts of Canada and the US. Her work is available in the sales and rental section of the Victoria Art Gallery and selected paintings may be viewed on line at gobc.ca.